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Is there such a thing as "interactive nonfiction"? Because if not, there should be. Design educational websites this way and watch children learn.
by nmg 8y ago
Is there such a thing as "interactive nonfiction"? Because if not, there should be. Design educational websites this way and watch children learn.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> Is there such a thing as "interactive nonfiction"? The real physical Universe is interactive nonfiction.
- nathancahill 8y ago/r/outside
- TomMarius 8y agoThe real physical universe doesn't offer tooling for playing with advanced math, though.
- dllthomas 8y agoSure it does, it just takes some work to unlock it.
- JadeNB 8y ago> The real physical universe doesn't offer tooling for playing with advanced math, though. The real physical universe is nothing but tooling for playing with advanced math (but it's not always easy to figure out what the advanced math is, or how best to play with it).
- TomMarius 8y agoIMHO that's like saying higher level programming languages than assembly are unnecessary. Or that a debugger is useless. And not just the learning purposes. Imagine the possibilities if we could properly simulate (and speed up the simulation) the world - what if we could use genetic algorithms to develop an organism.
- dllthomas 8y agohttps://qntm.org/responsibility https://qntm.org/responsibility
- JadeNB 8y ago> IMHO that's like saying higher level programming languages than assembly are unnecessary. Or that a debugger is useless. These two statements are quite different. Higher level programming languages than assembly are unnecessary; anything beyond the lambda calculus is unnecessary (assuming our goal is to compute Turing computable things). That's very different from saying that they're useless; just because they can be done without doesn't mean that they should.
- TomMarius 8y agoI know that these statements are quite different, I deliberately made two different examples - one about creating and one about debugging. A world simulator is going to be a test environment for us as well as an introspection tool.
- beaconstudios 8y agoyou should check out Brett Victor's (http://worrydream.com/ http://worrydream.com/) and Nicky Case's (https://ncase.me/ https://ncase.me/) websites. They both build really interesting systems for exploratory learning.
- jkeat 8y agoYes! Explorable Explanations: https://explorabl.es https://explorabl.es